Artur Simonyan, PhD, is a legal scholar specializing in theory and history of international law. He was a Fellow at the KFG Berlin-Potsdam Research Group and has lectured on international law at the University of Tartu and the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies. His research explores the intersections of geopolitics and international legal theory, with publications in the European Journal of International Law, Hague Yearbook of International Law, and Baltic Yearbook of International Law.